"In July to August 2015, we came off trial as it wasn't working and came home to make memories of our time left," Emily's mom Julie told Huffington Post U.K. "There were no treatments left to try."

On September 7, Apicella edited her daughter's final school photo from 2015 together with a photo of the same spot in 2016, and posted the results to Facebook in the hopes of persuading her friends to add a gold ribbon for childhood cancer awareness to their profile photos.